Our Process
How We Turn Your Priorities Into a Financial Plan
At First PREMIER Investment Services, we begin our relationship with a simple conversation, not a stack of forms. From there, we bring the details together, build and explain your plan, and stay connected as life changes. Each step has a purpose, and we work to ensure you feel confident and know where we are headed together.
Discovery:
Get To Know You
We begin by learning about your family, work, responsibilities, and the life you want your money to support. Once we understand what matters to you, we gather the financial details needed to move forward.
Goal Setting:
Define What You Want
Together, we turn broad ideas into specific goals with timeframes and financial targets. That may include building savings, preparing for retirement, supporting family, protecting a business, or creating dependable income later in life.
Analysis:
Evaluate Where You Stand
We review your income, savings, investments, debt, insurance, retirement benefits, and other resources in one place. Then we evaluate how those pieces work together and what they may need to produce over time.
Plan Development:
Build Recommendations
We develop recommendations based on your goals, timeline, comfort with risk, and income needs. Because every client’s life looks different, the financial plan and portfolio are built for you, not pulled from a standard template.
Implementation:
Put The Plan Into Action
Once you understand and are comfortable with the plan, we help carry out the agreed-upon steps. We coordinate the details, explain what is changing, and keep the work moving without leaving you to sort through it alone.
Ongoing Guidance:
Monitor And Adjust
We continue to review your progress, stay connected, and update the plan when your life changes. A new job, retirement date, family need, business transition, or income goal may call for a different course over time.
Take the First Step With Your Local Team
Meet with our team to talk through what matters to you and learn whether our approach to financial planning and investment management is a good fit for you and your needs.
Turning your Priorities into a Financial Plan
We’ve compiled answers to questions clients often ask about working with our team of financial professionals at First PREMIER Investment Services in South Dakota.
- What happens in my first meeting with a financial advisor at First PREMIER Investment Services?
We spend the first meeting learning about your life, goals, family, work, and the reason you reached out. Financial information matters, but it comes after we understand what your money needs to support.
- What should I bring to a financial planning meeting?
Recent account statements, retirement plan information, insurance details, debt balances, and income information can be helpful. Your financial professional can tell you which items matter most for your situation before the meeting.
- Does First PREMIER Investment Services create personalized financial plans?
Yes. The team is financial-planning based, and plans are shaped around each client’s goals, timeline, resources, risk tolerance, and income needs. Portfolios are also built for the individual rather than drawn from a boilerplate model.
- Will my financial professional explain the investment recommendations?
Yes. Education is part of the financial planning relationship. The team explains what is being recommended, how it works, and why it fits the plan so clients are not asked to simply hand over the decision.
- How often will my financial plan be reviewed?
Review cadence depends on the terms of our working relationship and your circumstances. Your financial professional will discuss an appropriate schedule and revisit the plan when changes in income, family, goals, or retirement needs call for an update.